Proof Of Lucid Dreaming
When Dr Stephen LaBerge began his investigations into lucid dreaming at the start of the 1980s, they were still a highly disputed phenomena in the scientific community.The reason so many were unconvinced was, at that time the evidence for a lucid experience was little more than someone asserting that it happened, and unforuantely it could not be shown that these people weren't either mistaken or lying..

LaBerge knew from his own expereinces that this was not the case, and lucid dreaming was real. So the first task was to gather some empirical evidence that people really did have lucid dreams. In his 1981 paper Lucid dreaming verified by volitional communication during REM sleep, he was able to put forward this evidence by having participants perform pre-arranged eye movements after becoming lucid.

While some still considered lucid dreaming impossible, many psychologists and sleep researchers followed a view put forward by Hartmann, that what people referred to as lucid dreams did not actually occur while dreaming in the REM phase of sleep but rather were brief period of waking hallucinations. In the study Lucid Dreaming: Psychophysiological Studies of Consciousness During REM Sleep, LaBerge used physiological data to prove beyond any reasonable question that the expereinces participants were reporting as lucid dreams did indeed occur during REM sleep while dreaming.

Currently one of the most important areas of research, is to determine the correlation between activities in waking life and the same activities in a lucid dream. The study Do REM (lucid) dreamed and executed actions share the same neural substrate, led by Daniel Erlacher from the University of Heidelberg in Germany showed that the same neural activity occurs in both cases. This suggests that it is possible to practice a physical skill in a lucid dream, and your performance while awake will improve.

In an earlier study, Recall a Word List in Lucid Dream, Daniel Erlacher demonstrated that in a lucid dream people can recall information such as a list of words, memorised when awake. This is key in showing that it would be possible to reherse a mental skill, such as learning a language while in a lucid dream.

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